VIDEO: North Korea – just one slip away from nuclear war
VIDEO Minor flare up could trigger nuclear response, warns expert BY:THE AUSTRALIAN, IAN MCPHEDRAN, NATIONAL DEFENCE REPORTER WITH AGENCIES,13 April 13
- Main risk is a miscalculation or a scenario where the wrong button is pushed
- Experts say a rapid escalation in hostilities is also possible
- How it unfolded: Tensions rise on Korean peninsula
THE key risk on the Korean peninsula is a miscalculation or the ”Dr Strangelove scenario” where a crazy North Korean general pushes the wrong button, according to a strategic expert.
Professor Hugh White from the Australian National University said the regime in Pyongyang would be in no doubt that a nuclear strike against the US or its allies would generate a rapid and disproportionate nuclear response from Washington.
He said the main threat was a miscalculation or a rapid escalation in hostilities following a minor military incident such as an artillery strike.
”At least we don’t face the Cold War situation where any launch would trigger a massive nuclear response by the other side,” Professor White said.
During the 1950s and 60s that strategy was known by the acronym MAD – mutually assured destruction…… http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/minor-flare-up-could-trigger-nuclear-response-warns-expert/story-e6frg6n6-1226619515907
VIDEO: More funding for USA’s nuclear weapons!
VIDEO Obama increases nuclear arms funding: Mark Mason, Press TV 11 April 13, An analyst says a true push for nuclear disarmament is in the international arena, but it won’t come from a US government, which is expanding nuclear terror.
In the background of this US president Obama wants more funds to modernize the country’s nuclear weapons, construct a uranium processing facility in Tennessee, and to sustain existing stockpiles. Obama is requesting 7.9 billion dollars for this purpose, which seems to run counter to the nuclear non-proliferation promotion that Obama led to achieve a Nobel peace prize in 2009. This development also calls into question the existing agreement with Russia that both sides should cut their nuclear arsenal to 1,500 by 2018. The current stockpile is assumed to exceed 5,000.
Press TV has interviewed Mark Mason, professor and political activist from Oakland about this issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: The existing US nuclear weapons can destroy the Earth several times. Why is it that President Obama is proposing for more funding to modernize the country’s existing nuclear weapons, especially at a time of austerity?
Mason: This is in keeping with the previous five years almost of his, I guess you would call it, his administration – it’s hardly even a government anymore.
We have the military industrial complex; there’s money involved – Cash that goes to the Pentagon – the Pentagon is worried about the budget; there are nuclear arms manufacturers- General Electric and others that benefit enormously from really the expansion of nuclear terror around the world……..
we have an international community that’s going to hopefully press forward for nuclear disarmament. It won’t come from the United States government…… http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/11/297732/obama-derails-nuclear-nonproliferation/
VIDEO: danger of escalating crisis, with North Korea’s threats
VIDEO North Korea’s nuclear threats could lead to dangerous escalation of crisis, warns U.N. Secretary General Australian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3731193.htm Broadcast: 05/04/2013 Reporter: Emma Alberici
The U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon has warned that North Korea’s nuclear threats could lead to an escalation of the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
Transcript EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The UN Secretary General has warned North Korea’s nuclear threats to lead to an escalation of the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
Ban Ki Moon says he’s concerned the North’s rhetoric might cause a miscalculation on the part of South Korea.
North Korea watchers believe the rogue regime doesn’t want a full scale war, they argue that Pyongyang is working toward as a small scale military provocation similar to its sinking of a South Korean ship in 2010.
ANDREA BERGER, NUCLEAR WEAPONS ANALYST: The difference this time around will be that South Korea has already made very clear that it will respond in kind to any such provocation and will not tolerate a death of South Korean citizens.
EMMA ALBERICI: South Korea is closely watching its northern neighbour’s missile movements with reports an intermediate range rocket has been moved to a launch site in the country’s east which is closer to US bases in the Pacific.
VIDEO: As signatory to NPT, Iran can enrich uranium
VIDEO: Iran has right to enrich uranium as NPT signatory: Analyst Press TV 5 April 13 A political commentator tells Press TV that the Islamic Republic of Iran as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has the same right to enrich uranium as other members of the NPT.Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers have started a fresh round of two-day comprehensive talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty with the main focus being on Iran’s nuclear energy program. The Iranian delegation is headed by Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili while the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, represents the P5+1 group — Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany. On Thursday, deputy to Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Baqeri said that the Islamic Republic would enter the new round of talks with the P5+1 group with clear, groundbreaking proposals. Earlier in the day, Iran’s chief negotiator urged the world powers to recognize Tehran’s right to enrich uranium under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Press TV has conducted an interview with Nader Bagherzadeh, a political commentator from Irvine, to further talk over the issue. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview. …..
VIDEO: North Korea’s nuclear threat on USA
North Korea ‘ratifies’ nuclear attack on US – video http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/apr/04/north-korea-nuclear-us-videoNorth Korean state TV announces that Pyongyang has ‘ratified’ an attack against the United States – though South Korean defence minister Kim Kwan-jin says North Korean missile’s firing range does not extend to the US mainland. Meanwhile, joint US and South Korean military exercises continue. US defence secretary Chuck Hagel says on Wednesday that the North Korea threat is being taken seriously
AUDIO: Cesium releases from Fukushima much higher than stated previously
“Game Changer”: Fukushima cesium releases likely 20-30 times higher than revealed (AUDIO)http://enenews.com/game-changer-fukushima-cesium-release-20-30-times-higher-revealed-video
Title: Hot Air http://www.fairewinds.org/content/hot-air-0
Source: Fairewinds Energy EducationWell that changes the game dramatically. Instead of 1% of the cesium, it’s likely that 20 or 30% of the cesium were released.
At that point, that’s very similar to what we saw at Chernobyl. So I’ve been saying the Fukushima accident was very comparable to the Chernobyl accident […]
They’re trying to claim that only 1% of the cesium got out because that’s what the old tests showed. What the old tests showed don’t match this slide 67 (right), the infrared picture. The infrared picture shows hot radioactive gases being released directly out into the atmosphere 9 days after the accident.
It’s a really important discovery and I hope that the people doing dose assessments will understand that they’re not dealing with a reactor containment that had water in it. They’re dealing with a reactor containment that had hot gas in it.
Full program available here http://fairewinds.org/content/fairewinds-speech-new-york-academy-medicine
VIDEO: Arnie Gundersen at New York Symposium about Fukushima
Symposium Q&A: Explosion at Fukushima Unit 3 drove nuclear fuel out of storage pool — Scattered up to 2 miles away (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/symposium-qa-explosion-unit-3-drove-nuclear-fuel-pool-scattered-particles-miles-away-video
Author: The Helen Caldicott Foundation
Date Presented: March 11, 2013
Questions & Answers
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: Unit 3 started as a hydrogen explosion – I am in the minority, but I think it’s more than a hydrogen explosion.
I actually think it was something called a prompt moderated criticality that was caused by a hydrogen explosion, which then drove the fuel and scattered particles of fuel for as far as two miles from the fuel pool. […]
The important thing though is that it was a detonation. How it was created is less important than the fact that it was a detonation shockwave and no containment can withstand that.
See also: NRC: There’s got to be fission products or pellets in parking lot outside Fukushima plant
Video: Noam Chomsky on nuclear war and climate change
Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Climate Change Will
http://www.thenation.com/video/173205/noam-chomsky-if-nuclear-war-doesnt-get-us-climate-change-will#
On The Earth Productions and The Nation March 28, 2013 In the
twenty-first century, humanity will likely burn out in a nuclear
holocaust or fade away amid the gradually mounting effects of climate
change. That was Noam Chomsky’s prediction during a
question-and-answer session in 2009 that still resonates today.
By moving forward with a missile defense policy that upsets the
balance of nuclear deterrence with Russia, “we’re consciously
increasing the threat of nuclear war,” Chomsky said. As for the
effects of climate change, “nobody knows the exact details, but
everybody knows that the longer you wait, the worse it’s going to be.”
—Alec Luhn
Noam Chomsky further eviscerates American foreign policy with his
piece “Why It’s Legal When the US Does It.”
Videos now officially released for the Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 11 March 2013 – New York
Videos now officially released with good quality and quick links with supporting Power point presentations..
March 11, 2013
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Day 2
March 12, 2013
New documentary on uranium mining – “Hot Water”
Kuciniches: Nuclear in ‘Hot Water http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/kuciniches-nuclear-in-hot-water-88771.html#ixzz2Nlz3QvQ0 By PATRICK GAVIN | 3/12/13
“Hot Water” is a new documentary about uranium mining and the nuclear industry, which has its world premiere tonight at Washington D.C.’s Environmental Film Festival.
The film follows filmmaker Liz Rogers’s journey around the United States as she explores the environmental impact of nuclear waste and mining. Elizabeth Kucinich is an executive producer of the documentary and her husband, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has lent his support to the film as well. “‘Hot Water’ is an important film because it takes people through what is really the initial stage of that fuel cycle, the mining of uranium and the poisoning of water supplies,” Dennis Kucinich told POLITICO. “This industry has too much influence. The industry is all about profits. They’re not about public safety. And, so, I think this film is important to get people thinking about the broader issues of nuclear power.”
VIDEOS on casualties due to Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Chernobyl: AA Million Casualties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc72kT_gFNQ&feature=player_embedded#t=211s 24 Mar 2011
A million people have died so far as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, explains Janette Sherman, M.D., toxicologist and contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. Published by the New York Academy of Sciences, the book, authored by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, Dr. Vassily Nesterenko and Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, examined medical records now available–which expose as a lie the claim of the International Atomic Energy Commission that perhaps 4,000 people may die as a result of Chernobyl.
Enviro Close-Up # 610 (29 mintes)
(In light of today’s news from the WHO this report from last May is being reposted) Continue reading
Youtube: Fukushima Nuclear Waste Curse; Reactor 4
Fukushima Rad News 2/22/13: Nuclear Waste Curse; Reactor 4 Fuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToaGtuEB9GM&hd=1
Japan TV: The Nuclear Waste Curse — Animation shows spent fuel rods being exposed in Fukushima pool (VIDEO)http://enenews.com/japan-tv-the-nuclear-waste-curse-animation-shows-spent-fuel-rods-were-exposed-and-steaming-in-fukushima-pool-video
February 23rd, 2013
Title: Nuclear Watch: Nuclear Waste Curse
Source: NHK World
Date: Fevb. 22, 2013
h/t MissingSky101
NHK Reporter: “Workers struggled to keep reactors cool after the tsunami knocked out the electricity supply. But that wasn’t the only problem. Right next to the reactors are pools that store spent nuclear fuel. The pools started to heat up after the power went down. Emergency crews had to pump in water to avoid a worst-case scenario, a meltdown of the fuel rods.”
VIDEO: Hanford nuclear waste leaks worse than previously thought
FOX Seattle: Nuclear waste leaks at Hanford are far worse than we thought (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fox-seattle-nuclear-waste-leaks-at-hanford-are-far-worse-than-we-thought-video February 23rd, 2013 Follow-up to: TV on U.S. Nuclear Waste Leak: Feds “just trying to figure out exactly what’s going on here” — “This has a lot of people saying, ‘What is going on out at Hanford?'” (VIDEOS)
FOX 13 News:: “This raises the prospect we have leakage in additional tanks beyond the six,” [Washington Governor Jay] Inslee said. “There are six leakers; there may be more.” Inslee said Chu assured him that “there is no imminent health threat connected to these leaks,” but agreed action has to be taken to prevent the radioactive waste from leaking into the state’s ground and groundwater. […] Attorney General Bob Ferguson released a statement that said the U.S. Department of Energy has failed to “adequately resolve the significant threat posed by the nuclear waste at Hanford.” […]
“Nuclear waste leaks at Hanford are far worse than we thought.”
Watch the video here
VIDEO: Australia’s veterans of atomic bomb test call for justice
‘‘We were human guinea pigs,’’
VIDEO, GALLERY: Victims of atomic tests want justice http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1317774/video-gallery-victims-of-atomic-tests-want-justice/?cs=12 IN his log book for October 3, 1952, former HMAS Murchison chief petty officer John Quinn noted the following: ‘‘Atomic bomb exploded on HMS Plym.’’
The log book recorded the facts of the first of 12 British atomic tests in Australia in the 1950s, but this week Mr Quinn, 86, of Shoal Bay, recounted the emotion of that day on an Australian frigate in the waters of Monte Bello. Continue reading
Tepco demands that Fukushima nuclear victims pay back compensation money!
AUDIO Company asking Fukushima victims to repay compensation: Greenpeace http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/connect-asia/company-asking-fukushima-victims-to-repay-compensation-greenpeace/1090696
Title: Company asking Fukushima victims to repay compensation: Greenpeace
Source: ABC Radio Australia
Author: Mark Willacy, North Asia correspondent
Date: February 19, 2013
h/t Pu239
[…] A report by the environmental activist group Greenpeace, to be released later today, points out that the firms that helped design and build the Fukushima reactors [such as General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi] are not required to pay a cent in compensation and are profiting from the disaster.
Meanwhile, the ABC program AM has learned that the operator – TEPCO – is handing out what’s called ‘temporary’ compensation which victims of the meltdown have to repay.
“We had that money deducted from our compensation. I was surprised, so I called TEPCO and said that they were using dirty tricks, that they were using fraud. Why did they give it to us to if we had to pay it back?” -Yukiko Kameya of Futaba
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